Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. Boards rather worn with tape-repair to spine, backstrip absent. Edition of 1000 , this is 762.
Seller: Webbooks, Wigtown, Wigtown, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No. 492 of 1000 copies. Darkened and discolored cloth patterned boards. Edgewear. Spine in like condition. Heavy edge wear to spine extremities and joints. Splitting, tearing, lifting at joints and along hinges. Also affects small portion of upper edge of back panel closest to hinge with board exposure. Corners bumped and turned inward. Tanning to pastedowns and endpapers, text. Hinge splitting from top, visible between rear pastedown and endpaper (approx. 2.5 inches).17 plates present in rear pocket.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+ in printed cloth covered boards with worn black text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/4 vy 5 3/4 inches with the spine tanned as are the upper edges of the boards. Without a dust jacket as issued. One of only 1,000 copies printed with this copy identified as number 839. 38 pages of text followed by 9 pages of images of Blake's wood engravings. Laid-in at the rear of the book is an extra suite of plates containing 17 images by Blake.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A crisp, lovely example of the 1937 1st edition, this being #25 of 1,000 copies issued. Clean, tight and Near Fine in its decorative, patterned boards. Thin octavo, deckled edges, Introduction by the estimable Geoffrey Keynes. Also includes the publisher's booklet, tucked in at the rear pastedown, which contains the 17 (complete) illustrated sheets and a former-owner laid-in card demonstrating that this copy belonged at one point to Maggs Bros. of London.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$168.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo; 52 pages; Very light wear to the covers. Small booksellers label partially removed on front free endpaper. Copy #426 of 1000.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this no. 474; Tight binding; Cloth boards show moderate wear from age w/ water damage present, cloth loose at spine, spin edges frayed; Previous owner name (in pencil) present at front free end-page, pages otherwise unmarked; Folder w/ extra suite of 17 electrotypes present in rear pocket, these are VG+; A nice copy, not without wear, a rare edition.
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$269.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~Limited edition, no. 49 of 1000 copies. Printed at The Curwen Press. Cream and grey pastepaper-patterned cloth to boards, grey lettering to spine. Minor chip to base spine, mild wear to boards. Board corners slightly pushed in. 8vo (15 x 24cm). Top edges trimmed, other edges untrimmed. Hinges sound, endpapers uncracked at gutters. '17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the engravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs, all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype' (Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 110). With folder in pocket to inside rear board containing 17 unbound pages, each with a print of Blake's engravings taken direct from electrotypes of the woodblocks and thus avoiding the trimming and poor printing 'which obscures the beauty of his work as it is now revealed for the first time' (cover of folder). Presentation copy inscribed by Geoffrey Keynes to front free endpaper: 'Ruthven Todd from Geoffrey Keynes, Dec. 1941', with additional inscription 'NOT TO BE LENT'. Keynes has also corrected the text with a marginal annotation to p. 7, adding a missing 'he'. This volume was thus a gift from one of the great 20th century Blake scholars to another, at a time when they were collaborating on an ambitious project to compile a catalogue raisonné of Blake's artworks. This project was abandoned in 1947, when Todd moved to New York, but not before much had been achieved. Keynes' injunction re lending is interesting - he was evidently keen for the volume to remain in Todd's possession, and this may reflect as well the likelihood of the constantly impecunious and not particularly scrupulous Todd simply selling the book on; when Todd was lodging with his publisher Geoffrey Grigson in 1940, for instance, 'the former pretended not to notice when the latter started paying his rent by selling books stolen from the top shelves of Grigson's own library' (TLS 6037, 2018). A beautifully produced volume, with provenance that places it at the heart of mid-century Blake studies. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: 38pp
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cream cloth decorated boards in protective wrapper. PP.52. Limited Edition No: 564 of 1000 copies printed at The Curwen Press. 'The Illustrations Of William Blake For Thornton's Virgil With The First Eclogue And The Imitation By Ambrose Philips', with Blake's illustrations. Including: Proofs Of Eight Of Blake's Blocks In Their Original State. Sixteen Of Blake's Pencil Designs For The Wood-Engravings. Inserted into a pocket at the rear of the book in a blue paper folder are 17 wood-engravings taken direct from electrotypes of the wood blocks and printed on Japon paper. "The beauty of his work as it is now revealed for the first time". Book and prints are all in exceptionally fine condition. As new.
Seller: Lott Rare Books, Banstead, SRY, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937 (first thus). Octavo, 52 pages with numerous illustrations, plus a folder containing an additional suite of 17 loose plates in an endpocket. Original patterned cloth lettered in brown on the spine; all edges uncut; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the plain glassine dustwrapper chipped and torn with minor loss. Number 552 of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. '[Robert] Thornton had published his school edition of Virgil in 1812, with a second edition printed in 1819. This included not only Virgil's Latin verses but also "imitations" of Virgilian poetry by other authors. One of these was Ambrose Phillips, who had written an imitation of Virgil's first Eclogue (or pastoral poem composed in the form of a dialogue). Blake was commissioned to illustrate Phillips's verses for the expanded third edition of Thornton's Virgil for which he provided seventeen wood-engraved designs' (National Gallery of Victoria website). This curious publication charts the history of these illustrations. It reproduces the suite of 17 wood engravings as they appeared in the published work, three wood engravings after Blake's designs cut by a journeyman engraver, eight proofs printed before the blocks were cut down by the publisher, and 16 preliminary drawings; the additional suite of loose plates is printed from electrotypes taken directly Blake's original blocks. The informative introduction is by Geoffrey Keynes.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$314.28 + shipping
Description: A beautifully illustrated limited edition copy of William Blake's illustrations for Robert John Thornton's edition of 'Virgil'. A Limited Edition, printed at the Curwen press. This copy is numbered 761 of 1000 copies produced.With a detailed introduction from Geoffrey Keynes.A fascinating work, which looks at the illustrations of English print-maker and seminal figure in the field of visual arts, William Blake. With Thornton's 'First Eclogue' printed to accompany the images. Illustrated with eight proofs of Blake's blocks in their original state, sixteen of Blake's designs for the wood-engravings, and with seventeen electrotypes from Blake's original etchings printed on separate leaves in a blue folder inserted in rear pocket, and printed on Japon vellum.Collated, complete.With a contemporary inscription, dated 26.2.38, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Light discolouration to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches). 36pp. Illustrations throughout. Folder with extra suite of 17 electrotypes in rear pocket. Publisher's patterned cloth boards. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this no. 691, printed by the Curwen Press from design by Meynell. This fascinating work looks at the illustrations of the iconic English poet, painter, and figure in the field of visual arts, William Blake. "17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs, all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype" (Dreyfus). Dreyfus 110.
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: In patterned pastepaper covered boards, printed title label to spine, 8vo, 38pp + proofs of Blake's blocks in their original state and sixteen of Blake's designs for the wood-engravings. No. 809 of a limited edition of 1000 copies printed at the Curwen Press. Notable for 17 prints (electrotyped from the original etchings) laid-in a folder at the rear of the book. a near fine copy with minimal light surface wear, and slight toning to edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Blake, William. One of 1000 copies, printed at the Curwen Press, this copy marked "out of series". Illustrated with Blakes's wood engravings. 36 pp., printed on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo. "17 wood engravings by Blake and 3 designed by him and cut by a journey engraver, 8 of the egravings also reproduced from Blake's original proofs, all printed from line blocks. 16 drawings for the engravings reproduced in collotype." - Dreyfus. Dreyfus 110 White cloth with Italianate pattern in grey. With 17 electrotypes of the engravings printed on separate leaves in a blue folder inserted in rear pocket. Book label of Chicago collector Harry Hansen loosely inserted. Fine copy with original plain glassine wrapper Illustrated with Blakes's wood engravings. 36 pp., printed on rectos only. 1 vols. 8vo One of 1000 copies, printed at the Curwen Press, this copy marked "out of series".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.